MLE
@monstrousemy.bsky.social
A mother-slow-AF runner engineer who loves fun facts
“If there are laws that are unjust, if there are laws that don’t respect human dignity, we feel that our commitment to Christ requires that we put ourselves in places where we may face some of the same threats.”
Ohio city whose Haitian migrants were disparaged by Trump braces to defend them against deportation
An Ohio city whose Haitian migrants were disparaged by President Donald Trump last year as he pitched voters on his plans for an immigration crackdown is now bracing to defend them against possible de...
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July 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
“If there are laws that are unjust, if there are laws that don’t respect human dignity, we feel that our commitment to Christ requires that we put ourselves in places where we may face some of the same threats.”
Tom Lehrer has passed away. A reason he once gave for retiring from performances was "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize." How much things have changed yet stayed the same.
youtu.be/aIlJ8ZCs4jY?...
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Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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July 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Tom Lehrer has passed away. A reason he once gave for retiring from performances was "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize." How much things have changed yet stayed the same.
youtu.be/aIlJ8ZCs4jY?...
youtu.be/aIlJ8ZCs4jY?...
Miss Lola is 10 years old next week! I saw her soulful eyes in a picture on our local Humane Society website 6 years ago - we were her 4th family. She only needed some patience, exercise & anxiety meds for her to get to live her best life. We love her so so much 💖💕💖
June 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Miss Lola is 10 years old next week! I saw her soulful eyes in a picture on our local Humane Society website 6 years ago - we were her 4th family. She only needed some patience, exercise & anxiety meds for her to get to live her best life. We love her so so much 💖💕💖
Bless the AMA and the MANY medical organizations who signed this letter. Fighting to maintain vaccine accessibility.
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
June 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Bless the AMA and the MANY medical organizations who signed this letter. Fighting to maintain vaccine accessibility.
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
We completed our second Tough Mudder together! #powercouple
June 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We completed our second Tough Mudder together! #powercouple
An article about Bill Nye just randomly reminded me that Ultimate Frisbee was a thing. Good.
June 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
An article about Bill Nye just randomly reminded me that Ultimate Frisbee was a thing. Good.
Please let there be a Free Press vs the Blade-esque story arc. Regardless, very happy news. I hope Oscar Nunez loves it in Toledo.
Here's when 'The Office' spinoff 'The Paper' will premiere: What to know
The Dunder Mifflin documentary crew is heading to a newspaper in "The Office" spinoff "The Paper," coming to Peacock this fall.
www.usatoday.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Please let there be a Free Press vs the Blade-esque story arc. Regardless, very happy news. I hope Oscar Nunez loves it in Toledo.
Tommy nailed it again
April 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Tommy nailed it again
Old Lady Cattitude survived another random health threat! Shout out to my veterinarians who saved her yet again. Her kidneys are operating at like 25% so when she started getting sick again I assumed it was that. Nope, severe E. Coli infection.
April 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Old Lady Cattitude survived another random health threat! Shout out to my veterinarians who saved her yet again. Her kidneys are operating at like 25% so when she started getting sick again I assumed it was that. Nope, severe E. Coli infection.
The National Parks Service updated its webpage for the Underground Railroad in the WEIRDEST way!
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
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Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
wapo.st
April 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The National Parks Service updated its webpage for the Underground Railroad in the WEIRDEST way!
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
I ran 12.26 miles in the rain! I’m ready to go all the way for this upcoming HM. This was a practice race & I finished in last place. I really get a kick out of that (tho it used to embarrass me). Running is stupid and I love it so much.
April 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I ran 12.26 miles in the rain! I’m ready to go all the way for this upcoming HM. This was a practice race & I finished in last place. I really get a kick out of that (tho it used to embarrass me). Running is stupid and I love it so much.
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Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.
April 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.
The many personalities of Cattitude.
April 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The many personalities of Cattitude.
Friendly reminder to check that you have at least one carbon monoxide detector in your home. Change batteries every year & replace every 8 to 10 years. Natural gas doesn’t naturally have a smell, but it is usually added by your utility & smells like rotten eggs.
Carbon monoxide, often called the “silent killer,” has no taste, odor or color, yet prolonged inhalation of the invisible gas is suspected in the recent deaths of several American tourists traveling abroad.
Here’s how to stay safe.
Here’s how to stay safe.
Carbon monoxide poisoning has been tied to several traveler deaths. Here’s how to stay safe on your trips | CNN
Carbon monoxide, often called the “silent killer,” has no taste, odor or color, yet prolonged inhalation of the invisible gas has been linked to the recent deaths of several American tourists travelin...
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April 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Friendly reminder to check that you have at least one carbon monoxide detector in your home. Change batteries every year & replace every 8 to 10 years. Natural gas doesn’t naturally have a smell, but it is usually added by your utility & smells like rotten eggs.
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So much political discourse right now in the US is boiling down to "I didn't believe the bleeding person who told me the wolf at the door was dangerous to me. Because I thought the wolves only hunted them." And I don't know what people think can happen as long as that is still the conversation.
April 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
So much political discourse right now in the US is boiling down to "I didn't believe the bleeding person who told me the wolf at the door was dangerous to me. Because I thought the wolves only hunted them." And I don't know what people think can happen as long as that is still the conversation.
I saw a presentation yesterday where an “industry expert” claimed we can expect a 9 to 15% increase to current inflation. That was BEFORE yesterday’s “Liberation Day” tariffs were announced, and were worse than expected. I have no idea if these numbers are correct, but it paints a scary picture.
April 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I saw a presentation yesterday where an “industry expert” claimed we can expect a 9 to 15% increase to current inflation. That was BEFORE yesterday’s “Liberation Day” tariffs were announced, and were worse than expected. I have no idea if these numbers are correct, but it paints a scary picture.
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Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.
April 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.
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A Skadden attorney resigned today, citing the firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump amid pressure campaign on law firms.
“[I]f my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,” the former Skadden lawyer, Brenna Trout Frey, wrote on LinkedIn.
“[I]f my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,” the former Skadden lawyer, Brenna Trout Frey, wrote on LinkedIn.
March 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
A Skadden attorney resigned today, citing the firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump amid pressure campaign on law firms.
“[I]f my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,” the former Skadden lawyer, Brenna Trout Frey, wrote on LinkedIn.
“[I]f my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,” the former Skadden lawyer, Brenna Trout Frey, wrote on LinkedIn.
Fun fact: Myanmar, one of the world’s poorest countries, is the plastic waste dumping ground for the world’s wealthiest countries. I’ve seen many articles denigrating Myanmar for their lack of seismic force-resistant structures and how that has compounded a staggering death toll.
The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed.
Myanmar's earthquake death toll jumps to more than 1,000 as more bodies are recovered
The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed.
www.npr.org
March 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Fun fact: Myanmar, one of the world’s poorest countries, is the plastic waste dumping ground for the world’s wealthiest countries. I’ve seen many articles denigrating Myanmar for their lack of seismic force-resistant structures and how that has compounded a staggering death toll.
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"Pikachu running from the police with protestors in Turkey" ok surely not lets just press play and oh no ok
March 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"Pikachu running from the police with protestors in Turkey" ok surely not lets just press play and oh no ok
I couldn’t remember how plastic was made. I’m dying at “natural, organic materials such as … crude oil.” Dying slowly from the microplastics floating around in my brain.
March 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I couldn’t remember how plastic was made. I’m dying at “natural, organic materials such as … crude oil.” Dying slowly from the microplastics floating around in my brain.
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Whenever people in Britain and America like to laud themselves about WWII, I like to remind them that Britain and America both rejected Anne Frank’s family’s visas. They could have been a happy family in London, where Otto wanted to go, or New York.
March 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Whenever people in Britain and America like to laud themselves about WWII, I like to remind them that Britain and America both rejected Anne Frank’s family’s visas. They could have been a happy family in London, where Otto wanted to go, or New York.
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data: